Re: Fedora 7 encrypted root partition

From: Kevin Kofler <kevin kofler chello at>

To: fedora-devel-list redhat com

Subject: Re: Fedora 7 encrypted root partition

Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:07:04 +0000 (UTC)

Jeremy Katz <katzj <at> redhat.com> writes:
> The problem with doing this is that there really isn't any way to sanely
> prompt a user in their native language and allowing for their native
> keymap for a password prior to mounting the rootfs (and potentially
> more).
Well, I think understanding "password:" is not a big problem in most
countries. ;-) As for the keymap, if you only allow alphanumeric characters (no
brackets, asterisk or whatever), the US keymap won't be that big of a problem.
I know where the numbers and letters on the US keyboard are (same as on my
German one except that Y and Z are swapped), and I think most computer-savvy
people here in Austria know that too. And in many countries (especially those
with a non-Latin alphabet, e.g. Greece, but also several Asian countries, I
believe), the Latin letters use the same layout as in the US.
I think the importance of NLS is often overrated.
Kevin Kofler